Macuria “Merc” Montolanez

Macuria, was born in Greenwich ,Connecticut and she studied at the Dwight School in Englewood, New Jersey. During the summers of 1953-59, she continued her studies at Columbia University in New York City. In 1959 she studied at Bryn Mawr College until she transferred to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. During the summers of 1970 through 1978, she went to Europe where she worked in Greece. Through 1978 to 1988 she lived and worked in New York, as an artist in SoHo. Macuria pioneered into Wynwood in the year 2000, creating Merc Studios where she currently works and exhibits.

Merc has exhibited her works internationally with special attention to New York City nightlife at Kamikaze, the Mudd Club and East of Eden. She has also exhibited and sold in France and Greece. Macuria, exhibited also at the 2002 premiere of Art Basel with the SKot Forman Gallery “Now in San Miguel, Mexico”. the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Contemporary Arts exhibited her works in 2002 and 2005.